Erik Gates died
December 29, 2009
Erik Gates
Erik Gates, who was a regular on the Discovery Channel TV show ‘Mythbusters’ took a tragic 30 feet plunge to his death. Erik was walking on the roof of the Xirrus Inc Building at 2101 Corporate Center Drive in Newburry Park with his friend when the accident happened. Both of them were working on it, suddenly Erik fall off the building and dropped 30 feet to his death. He died of blunt force injuries to the chest.
Immediately, after falling from the roof he tried to talk about the scene but his body couldn’t handle that type of fall. Erik died later on at the hospital. According to a report he fall through a skylight on the building. His friend was working with him that time but he had his back turned so he could not see how and why he fall from the roof ?
Erik was the former director of the Rocketry Organization of California. Currently he was serving as director on the board of the Tripoli Rocketry Association. Xirrus’ CFO commented on the tragedy:
“He was a good guy, he survived cancer, he jumps with parachutes, he base jumps. He’s an active guy who was used to taking precautions. This was a freak accident that shouldn’t have happened.”